11/30/11. Per the New Jersey Law Journal (coming out next week) we will be informed that the refusal bill I mentioned last week (which would remove the requirement that police inform defendants they do not have a right to refuse) got pushed up in committee … before the State Bar even got a chance to review it… and that in the Attorney General’s words, the bill was its own ”initiative” to defeat defendants who do ” not speak English”. I leave it to you to decide whether that sounds kosher, but if passed the bill would seem to rob all defendants of the due process right (or at least a fundamental fairness right) to know that refusal by silence or assertion of right to a lawyer is not encompassed within Miranda. I wonder if this bill’s reasoning isn't like throwing the baby out with the bath water?